Cabotage legislation and regulations:
Cabotage transport is a complete modal, with an active legislation, being supervised and monitored by the government and other regulatory agencies
■ Law 9432/1997, of January 8, 1997: Establishes the Water Transportation Structure
Regulates the chartering of international vessels, provides the definition of different types of vessels and creates REB (Special Brazilian Register)
■ Law 10893, of July 13, 2004
AFRMM – Additional Freight for the Renewing of the Merchant Marine
■ OTM Law: Law 9611/1998 – OTM, of July 20, 2007
OTM – Transport Multimodal Operator
■ Law 10233/2001, of June 5, 2001
Provides for the Restructuring of Water Transport and creates ANTAQ, Brazil’s Water Transport Agency
■ Normative Resolution 01-ANTAQ, of February 13, 2015:
Regulates Chartering
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